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Agricultural Policy Debate: A Survey

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A survey is provided of writings between 1978 and 1985 on or directly relevant to Australian agricultural policy. The areas covered are: background and overview; industry policy, including tariff compensation, home consumption price schemes. quotas, input subsidies and futures trading by marketing boards; stabilization; adjustment and the capital market; and macroeconomics and agriculture. An increasingly critical approach has been taken in identifying sources of inefficiency in agriculture and in considering ways of reducing them. Private interest explanations of policy descisions have received serious study and macroeconomic issues have received increasing attention.

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  • Geoff W. Edwards, 1987. "Agricultural Policy Debate: A Survey," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 63(2), pages 129-143, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:63:y:1987:i:2:p:129-143
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1987.tb00645.x
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